Area businesses cast wary eye toward visa program

The article provides information on the federal government's temporary visa program for foreign nonagricultural workers known as H-2B in Long Island, New York. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Department has been issuing 66,000 temporary visas, and allowed exemptions that does not count against the cap.

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